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Here is the Chinese idiom 「秋風落葉」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

The autumn wind swept away all the fallen leaves. Metaphorically wiped out and no longer existing.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiū fēng luò yè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chau1 fung1 lok6 yip6

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